Word: esteeming
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...smart enough to figure out the answer, I will probably try harder, newly aware that it is within my grasp. However, the all-powerful selfesteem workshop can be very dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, especially when the information we have been given about self-esteem is somewhat questionable...
...questionable? We will get to that shortly. But first, what is selfesteem anyway? How exactly does one measure this elusive, fairy-dust quality? What it is seems straightforward enough: it is how much one esteems oneself (hence, "self-esteem"). Yet, what a researcher needs is something tangible to measure. So he or she asks such questions as appeared on the AAUW survey. Students were asked, for example, to respond "always true," "usually true," "sometimes true," or "rarely true," to the statement "I am good at a lot of things." But does answering "always true" really mean that one has high...
...these facts show that the education system is failing girls? Should our schools be spending more time on improving self-esteem? A closer look at some educational facts makes me think otherwise...
...well-known fact that American students score lower in math and science than Asian school children. But, according to Sommers, tests have shown that American children have much more faith in their math and science abilities than do Asian students. It seems that self-esteem is the only thing Americans score well on. Perhaps raising our students' selfesteem is not that important, and we should be focussing more on education. But what about the gender gap just within our borders...
First, it is a glaring fact that the lowest scorers on self-esteem exams, white girls, happen to be the highest achieving group in the country. They get the best grades and attend college in higher numbers than any other group. To reinforce this point, the highest scoring group on the AAUW's survey was Black males, the group most educationally at risk. It seems that self-esteem and actual success are negatively related...